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15-Sep-2011
Unemployment remains stubbornly high in the OECD area with the latest economic forecasts suggesting job creation will remain anaemic in the near term, according to a new OECD report.
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04-Jul-2011
The OECD’s International Migration Outlook 2011, containing analysis on recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries, will be published at 14.30 p.m. CET (12.30 GMT) on Tuesday 12 July 2011.
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06-Apr-2011
A call to action for governments to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes was announced today in The Lancet. OECD health experts, Franco Sassi and Michele Cecchini, the authors of the OECD 2010 report on “Obesity and the economics of prevention, Fit not Fat ”, and a recent Lancet paper on non-communicable diseases, joined leading scientists and experts in authoring this new paper.
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24-Feb-2010
Denmark’s dynamic youth labour market and well-developed activation strategy have helped young people weather the current recession better than their peers in most OECD countries.
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DIOC extended is LIVE
11-Jan-2010
The new Database on Immigrants in OECD and non OECD Countries (DIOC extended, Release 1.0) provides comprehensive and comparative information on a broad range of demographic and labour market characteristics of immigrants living in 30 OECD countries and 25 non OECD countries. This is an ongoing effort aiming at extending the coverage of the existing DIOC database to non-OECD countries for the year 2000.
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03-Jul-2009
Before the crisis, immigrants were doing rather well on the labour market in Norway compared with other OECD countries. However, immigrants are now disproportionately affected by the ongoing economic downturn.This is especially the case for the many recent arrivals from the new EU member states. There is a risk that this can have a lasting effect on their future labour market outcomes. The current downturn is thus a “testing time” for the integration of immigrants in Norway, the report says.
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OECD says governments must continue reforms of disability systems
20-Nov-2008
OECD governments should continue reforming their sickness and disability systems and help people with health problems to retain their jobs or find new ones, according to a new OECD report.
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17-Nov-2008
This publication reviews the labour market integration of immigrants and their children in four OECD countries - Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Portugal. The viability of future migration policies, in particular greater recourse to immigration, will depend to a large extent on how successful OECD countries and immigrants are in achieving the objective of successful integration in the labour market.
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29-Oct-2008
This review (Health Working Paper No. 37) surveys trends in physician supply in the United States from 1980 to the present with particular attention to the participation of International Medical Graduates.
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Jobs for Youth
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